Miscellaneous
BESIDES INDEPENDENCE DAY,
there’s another reason for contractors
to celebrate July: Smart Irrigation
Month. As July is one of the
peak months for landscape water
usage, it’s a good time to look closely
at smart irrigation practices,
water-saving irrigation products
and water efficiency in general.
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Close-Up Profiles
If ever there was an individual
who, not knowing
where his career path would
end up, prepared himself
along the way, it would
have to be Steve Christie.
I’m sure it wasn’t planned
that way, but Christie
gained a vast knowledge of
the irrigation industry and a
world of experience that
eventually led him to where
he is now, the owner of a
five-store chain of irrigation
supply stores in Indiana
called Automatic Irrigation.
It might have been luck, or
perhaps Providence that
laid out the path for Christie
to follow.
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Close-Up Profiles
It was January of 1988 and
John DeCell was out of a job.
He’d worked as a loan officer for
the First American Bank in his
hometown of Baytown, Texas for
five-and-a-half years, but the
banking industry had fallen
under hard times and DeCell suddenly
found himself without a
job. Factor into this the added
pressure of knowing your first
son is only months away from
being born, and you’ve an idea
of the headspace DeCell was in
on this particularly tumultuous
New Year.
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Close-Up Profiles
During the hot summer afternoons when the rest of his peers were lazing in swimming pools and catching campy action flicks at the local movie theatre, Bryce Bousquet spent his teenage years stocking shelves at his dad’s company warehouse.
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Miscellaneous
LET’S ASSUME THAT YOUR COMPANY
gets a contract with a homeowner
whose property encompasses
the size of two football fields,
and, in addition to regular lawn
maintenance, that homeowner
wants you to install an irrigation
system. You and your employees
are all very happy—after all,
this is a big job.
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Sprinklers
It's no mass government conspiracy that the availability of fresh
water is decreasing every day, while populations continue to rise
along with the demand for water. It's not as if there are more
freshwater sources today than there were a million years ago
-there aren't any new ones to tap into. Some scientists predict
that by the year 2050, more than one billion people in Asia alone
could face massive water shortages.
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Building an irrigation supply business

Close-Up Profiles
From a job with the FBI to a career in the landscape industry seems like an unlikely leap, but that is exactly what Charles (Bud) Knowles decided to do when he learned that the FBI was going to transfer him from Dayton, Ohio to New Jersey.
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Miscellaneous
WATER CONSERVATION INITIATIVES HAVE SKYROCKETED over the past few years forcing many cities into mandatory water restrictions. Some mandate an overall usage reduction while others restrict days and time of acceptable watering periods.
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Miscellaneous
With water an increasingly scarce and valuable resource, it’s more important than ever for landscape irrigation designs to include efficiencies in every component of the system—including the pumping equipment.
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